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In my professional opinion, I do not advise compressing a drive. While it may get you some added storage, the risk of data loss is too great. The reason being that the compression algorithm used by Microsoft in each of their versions of Windows leaves much to be desired. Essentially what they do is create a gigantic file in which the computer stores everything that is the entire size of your hard drive. So, while you still look at it as if it were your C: drive, it is actually not the C: drive in its natural state. The bad thing is that if something corrupts the "shell" of the compressed drive, the everything inside is lost. This is similar to a hard drive developing a bad sector but instead of just one file being compromised, everything goes away.
What I would advise if you want to make room on your computer is to move any unnecessary data off to optical discs (CDs or DVDs) or invest in an external hard drive and move the unneeded data to that drive. If you choose to compress a drive and store your data inside it, make sure you either have a backup copy elsewhere or that you are willing to lose anything you put inside that drive.
What else can I help you with?
What you should never do to your hard drive?
You should NEVER unplug your hard drive with your computer still powered on. It will destroy the drive.
What kind of action should be seen in the strut before reassembly should the rod move rather easily or should it be hard to compress of course before installing the spring?
Rod should be rather hard to move. If you compress the rod into the strut it should come back out on its own power -RC-
What should you do if you run out of wav space?
There's no such thing as "wav space" as far as I know. Wav is a sound file format. If you run out of space in general, you have to delete or compress something, or get another hard drive ;).
Can you touch a hard drive?
You should only touch the outside of a hard drive. The parts of the hard drive you should not touch are inside. The hard drive is sealed and if you break the seal, you void any warranties and risk any data you have inside.
How can one increase computer storage?
There are many ways to increase the storage space on your computer. You can obtain and additional external hard drive that will give you more storage space when attached to your computer. You can also move existing files from your computer's internal hard drive to an external hard drive to clear up space on the internal hard drive. You can also compress files on your computer that you do not use often to free up space on your hard drive.
You should perform regular backups of the hard drive at least?
You should perform regular backups of a hard drive at least weekly.
If you have an existing hard drive and want to install a second hard drive and you want to keep the first drive bootable as the bootable drive how should you configure the second hard drive?
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
If a hard drive and DVD drive are connected to the ide port with the same cable should the hard drive be on the end connector?
The hard drive should be on the bottom connector and all you other drives on the top connectors. Thats how mines connected!!!!!!!! :-)
What can one do if the hard drive is clicking?
If a hard drive is clicking then a person should make a decision to try and back up or recover any files on the hard drive. Files on the hard drive can be recovered by using professional hard drive recovery systems.
When installing an IDE hard drive's configuration a master or slave is handled?
the hard drive should be set to master...
How is backing up files to your external hard drive freeing up space on your computer?
It doesnt, unless you either remove or compress/resize what you backed up.
How do you recover data from RAW hard drive?
To recover data from a RAW hard drive the hard drive must be intact in some way. Connect the damaged hard drive as the slave drive and another hard drive that is in working order as the master drive. This should allow for file transfer as long as the RAW drive is not too far damaged.
